Garment cover and hanger assembly



Dec. 16, 1958 P. P. PETRUNYA GARMENT COVER AND HANGER ASSEMBLY INVENTOR.PefarBPetran Filed June 26, 1956 United States Patent GARMENT COVER ANDHANGER ASSEMBLY Peter P. Petrunya, McKees Rocks, Pa. 7

Application June 26, 1956, Serial No. 593,895

1 Claim. (Cl. 53-241) This invention relates to a garment cover andhanger assembly and, more particularly, to an improved shape for garmentcovers for enabling them to be nested to form a bundle and supported atan appreciable height so that, thereafter, they may be individuallypulled down over a garment suspended underneath.

In dry cleaning establishments, the usual practice in covering a cleanedgarment, such as a coat, with a paper cover or wrapper, is to first hangthe garment on a hanging rod and then to lift a cover on the rod bysliding its top opening therealong and then suspend the clothes hangeron the hook at the lower portion of a hanger rod, and thereafter tolower the paper cover onto the hanger and garment so as to protect thegarment against soiling as it is being carried home, by the customer,from the dry cleaning establishment.

This system has outstanding disadvantages in that each time a garmentcover is to be used, the cover must be first lifted on the hanger rod,and thereafter pulled down. Furthermore, each paper cover must beindividually handled and separately stored, such as underneath acounter. The conventional paper cover is of substantially rectangularshape, that is, the sides extend in vertical, parallel relationship,therefore, such covers cannot be assembled in nesting relationship.

In accordance with an object of my invention, the paper cover for thegarment is made of a different shape than the conventional one, that is,the sides are slightly tapered downwardly and outwardly, rather thanbeing parallel, as are the shoulder covering portions. Thus the garmentcovers may be easily nested together so that a large bundle of garmentcovers can be nested together and supported in bundle form at asubstantial height. Thus all that the attendant has to do is to supportthe garment hanger 14 on the hanger eye 12 and merely pull down theinnermost cover in the bundle, thus tearing it from its .support.

Another object of my invention is to provide a novel hanger or supportfor nested paper covers for garments, whereby the covers are held in abundle at a substantial height, and including a hook or eye, lowermost,for supporting a hanger on which the garment is mounted.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will becomeapparent from a study of the following description taken with theaccompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front view of a novel hanger for nested garment covers,embodying the principles of my invention, and showing a supporting hookin the operativeposition;

Figure 2 is a front view similar to Figure 1 except Figure 5 is a frontview of the assembly shown in Figure 4;

Figure 6 shows a blank for forming one of the paper covers for agarment; and

Figure 7 is a front view of one of the paper covers for the garment incompleted form.

Referring more particularly to Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the drawing, whichshows a hanger forming part of the assembly embodying the presentinvention, numeral 1 denotesa hollow tube having a longitudinallyextending slot 2 adjacent the top portion thereof and having secured tothe inner wall of the upper end thereof, a latch 3. Integrally securedto the lower closed end portion of tube 1 is a hollow cylindrical boss 4enclosing a helical spring 5 which is compressed by means of outwardlyextending pins 6 integrally formed on rod 8 and projecting through slots7 of the hollow cylindrical element 4. Rod 8 is slidably mounted insideof tube 1 and boss 4. A sharp supporting hook 9 is pivotally mounted bya pin 10 on the rod 8. A latch element 11 is integrally formed on theupper portion of rod 8. An eye 12 is integrally formed on the lower endof rod 8 which serves as a support for a clothes hanger 14.

Turning now to Figures 4 to 7 inclusive, it will appear that the papercovers 21 for the garments are of substantially trapezoidal shape, thatis their sides 21a are downwardly and outwardly inclined, as well astheir shoulder portions 211). As shown more clearly in Figures 6 and 7,each cover may be made from a single blank having the outline shown inFigure 6, which is thereafter glued along flaps 21c so as to form acover having the shape shown in Figure 7. An alternative method is totake a conventional, rectangular shaped cover and merely fold the upperedge along a diagonal line to provide a taper shown along edge 21a.

In view of the slight downward and outward taper of the cover 21, alarge number of such covers may be placed in nested relationship, asshown in Figure 5, and then held together as a bundle by projecting thesharp supporting hook so as to form holes 24 adjacent the upper edges ofthe covers. Initially the tube 1 is projected through the nested coverswith the hook 9 in the retracted position as shown in Figure 2. When soretracted it compresses spring 5 and is maintained in the latchingposition by the latch elements 3 and 11, as shown. When it is desired tounlatch elements 3 and to pierce the nested covers by hooks 9, eye 12 isturned through an angle of so as to unlatch element 3 and allow the hook9 to project outwardly of tube 1 under the action of spring 5, asillustrated in Figure 1 so as to pierce holes 24 at the top of covers 21so as to support them as a bundle..

In operation, the operator will hang a garment by placing hanger 14 oneye 12, and thereafter will grasp the innermost paper cover 21 and pullit down over the hanger 14 by making a tear between hole 24 and theupper edge of the cover by means of hook 9. Thus each time anothergarment is to be covered, this action is repeated, that is, theinnermost paper cover is pulled downwardly and torn away from itssupporting hook 9.

In view of the nested relationship of the paper covers, the portionsthereof corresponding to the positions of holes 24 are disposed along aslight angle which is the reason for disposing the supporting hook 9along the corresponding angle shown in Figure 1. Thus a large number ofcovers may be stored overhead instead of taking up counter space, andwithout the necessity of raising a cover each time a garment is to becovered.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided an efficient shape of papercover for garments so as to permit the covers to be nested in the formof a large bundle. Also I have provided a novel supporting rod assemblyincluding a retractable hook which is adapted to pierce the top edge ofeach garment cover, so that the operator need only hang the. garmentunderneath the supportingrod and pull the innermost cover away from thesupporting hook and onto the garment. Furthermore, I have provided agarment cover assembly" that enables a considerable savings of time onthe part of personnel in dry cleaning establishments.

While I have illustrated and described an embodiment of my invention, itwill be understood that this is by way of illustration only, and thatvarious changes and modifications may be made within the contemplationof my invention and within the scope of the following claim.

I claim:

A garment c'over support assembly comprising a vertically disposed,hollow cylindrical tube, a rod extending axially throughout the entirelength of said tube and projecting from the end portions thereof, asupporting element secured to the lower end of said rod, a supportinghook pivotally mounted on said rod and swingable angularly outwardlyfrom the upper portion of said rod through a longitudinal slot in saidtube, spring means surrounding said rod within said tube for normallyurging said rod upwardly and said hook outwardly of said tube, andlatching means for maintaining the spring under compression when saidrod is pulled downwardly resulting in retraction of said hook withinsaid tube by virture of the bearing point for the hook provided at thelower end of said tube slot.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS KeefeJune 21, 1955

